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Al Jazeera America announced that beginning today, Monday, April 21, the channel has expanded “Real Money with Ali Velshi” to one hour, in order to better serve viewers with clear, comprehensible business reporting during the election year and go in-depth into under-reported business stories and economics issues Americans most care about. Read More

Tom Perkins needs to find a hobby.
It seems the billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist hadn’t gotten it out of his system after calling attention, in what turned out to be the most-read letter-to-the-editor in Wall Street Journal history... Read More

The latest audience survey, conducted in February among 4,000 Americans aged 18-64, underscored cable TV segmentation trends unfolding for years. The national survey of news consumption habits (paid for by networks and channels, generally for use in ad sales) confirmed facts that many outside the television news industry might find surprising. For example, the average [...] Read More

I’ve spent almost 20 years as a reporter and anchor and have covered more live, fast-breaking stories than I remember. Mistakes happen regularly on cable news because of the inexact and unreliable nature of rolling coverage. But most of the mistakes don’t matter: the exact color of the car, the exact price of the stock, the exact quote from the courtroom. Read More

Al Jazeera America, the new US-based news channel set to launch later this year, today announced that Ali Velshi has joined Al Jazeera America to develop and host a daily primetime business program. Read More